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Dolch Work Bingo
Young scholars play Bingo using Dolch sight words on their game cards. In this sight word lesson plan, students create their own Bingo card, filling it out with dolch words from their provided list. When a student has gotten Bingo, the...
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Word Track Games
In this word tracking worksheet, students use dice with words on it and when their word comes up they get to move 1 square across a game board. Students play this in groups of 3.
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On a Roll With Digraphs
Students practice building and spelling words with digraphs. After discussing what digraphs are and how they change the spelling and produnciation of words, they create a dice game and play by spelling words containing common digraphs.
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TeachMe: 1st Grade
Let your eager learners practice their basic arithmetic and spelling skills with this fun interactive resource! For any primary grade teacher with access to an Apple mobile device, this is a must-have application.
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling of Short Vowel Words
Using pictures of a bed, a desk, a fish, and a pig, students unscramble the letters below to form the correct words. Pictures range from photographs to illustrations, and are easy for kids to understand.
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The Magic Apple
First graders read The Magic Apple and complete interdisciplinary activities related to the book. In this folktale lesson, 1st graders answer comprehension questions, recognize and record short /i/ sound words and complete worksheets...
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Working with Words Teacher Directed Activity by Mark Cogan for Elem. Test Prep
Young scholars build word families. In this interactive language arts activity, students visit a website where they play a game creating word families. Young scholars may print out their work when finished.
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Phonics Scramble Games: Correct the Spelling of the Short Vowel Words
Students practice their spelling skills in this activity, which provides four pictures and labels for them to unscramble. The words are fan, bag, cat, and bat.
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Winter Syllables pg. 1
It's winter! Bring the winter theme into your classroom with a syllable instructional activity. Scholars identify the winter picture, clap the number of syllables in the word, and then write in the matching number of syllables for the...
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Aches and Pains
Being able to distinguish between short and long vowel /a/ sounds is an important skill for young readers. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading...
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Chopping Sounds
With the swing of a paper ax, young learners demonstrate how to appropriately segment three-letter words. Consider breaking learners into small groups and having them share a paper ax to keep the peace. This plan is so creative, but be...
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Compounding the Problem
Pupils sharpen their dictionary skills and their understanding of compound words in this plan. Tailor it to the grade level you teach by honing in on specific skills. For older learners, the plan suggests providing a word and having them...
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Matching Long U Words With Pictures
In this matching long U words with pictures worksheet, learners cut out 7 long U word cards and 7 picture cards, then place the matching picture beneath each word.
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Introduce Last Sound Segmenting (Mico Version)
What is Mico trying to say? Use a puppet to make this final-phoneme activity more engaging for kindergartners. Using three picture cards at a time (included), they listen to him say a final sound. To which of the three images is he...
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First Sound Segmenting Accuracy
What's the sound, Mico? Use your class' favorite puppet (in this example, Mico) to teach them about initial sounds in single-syllable words. Using the picture cards provided, choose three and lay them out in front of learners. When Mico...
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Building Fluency
As your youngsters begin to recognize the letters of the alphabet and their correponsding sounds, there are some they will be more familiar with than others. Cement their letter associations using this quick strategy, shown here with the...
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The Cream Cake Mystery - Seeing Patterns
A great language arts lesson designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with all of these...
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Mind Reader
First graders engage in a game which helps them recognize the word wall words. In this word lesson, 1st graders are given clues to follow, to determine the word on the wall. Students are assessed based on teacher observations. Students...
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'U / magic e' Decoder
In this phonics word decoder instructional activity, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 15 sets of numbers in order to form 15 long u words.
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'I magic e' Missing Vowels
In this phonics missing vowel activity worksheet, students fill in the missing vowels in 30 words in order to form 30 words with the long i sound. Students then read the list of words they have created.
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'Igh' Decoder
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 14 sets of numbers in order to form 14 -igh words.
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Y (long i) Decoder
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 16 sets of numbers in order to form 16 long i words.
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'Oa' Decoder
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 20 sets of numbers in order to form 20 "oa" words.
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'Ow' (long o) Decoder
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 20 sets of letters in order to form 20 long o words.